International Journal of Design

01/03/2024

IJDesign Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Design in and for the Public Sector
Full Paper Due: 31 May 2024

Special Issue Editors:
Suzan Boztepe, Amalia de Götzen, Turkka Keinonen, Jörn Christiansson,
Leigh-Anne Hepburn

The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design relat...

24/01/2024

JourneyBot: Designing a Chatbot-driven Interactive Visualization Tool for Design Research

Soojin Hwang, Dongwhan Kim

Recent trends underscore the growing adoption of chatbots in user research due to their ability to connect with multiple users simultaneously, bypassing physical and time constraints. In this research, we introduce JourneyBot, a novel chatbot-driven interactive visualization tool that captures users...

24/01/2024

Careful Curation of Care Content: A Case Study of a Technology-Supported Atrial Fibrillation Outpatient Clinic

Renee Noortman, Anne Wil Burghoorn, Peter Lovei, Jos-marien Jansen, Eva Deckers, Jasper Vermeer, Tineke Vinck-de Greef, Lukas Dekker, Mathias Funk

Medical care received outside the doctor’s office and the hospital is gaining traction. Lifestyle programs for transmural and remote care are increasingly facilitated by hospitals as part of rehabilitation, by general practitioners as preventative measures, and by various private (health) organiza...

24/01/2024

Service Blueprinting for Better Collaboration in Human-Centric AI: The Design of a Digital Scribe for Orthopedic Consultations

Reka Magyari, Fernando Secomandi

This case study explored the application of the service blueprinting method during the conceptual design of an AI-enabled digital scribe—an intelligent documentation support system—tailored for orthopedic consultations. In this paper, we discuss how this method can be used to enhance collaborati...

24/01/2024

Enhancing Desirable Food Behaviors by Increasing or Decreasing Disgust: Designing and Testing Infographics

Hendrik N. J. Schifferstein, Mailin Lemke, Niko Vegt

For health and environmental reasons, humanity should reduce the consumption of animal-based products, whereas vegetable consumption should be increased. We created stimuli (drawings with texts) that may be able to increase or decrease the purchasing of mushrooms, cheese, and meat. During the design...

24/01/2024

Sparking the Repair “Can-Do” Attitude: Enhancing Users’ Willingness to Repair through Design Support in Fault Diagnostics

Renske van den Berge, Lise Magnier, Ruth Mugge

Current production and consumption patterns of consumer electronics have a negative impact on our environment. Designers can contribute to changing these patterns with more sustainable product design. Prolonging product lifetimes can have a positive impact, for which repair is a promising solution.....

24/01/2024

Data-Enhanced Design: Engaging Designers in Exploratory Sensemaking with Multimodal Data

Katerina Gorkovenko, Adam Jenkins, Kami Vaniea, Dave Murray-Rust

Research in the wild can reveal human behaviors, contexts, and needs around products that are difficult to observe in the lab. Telemetry data from the use of physical products can help facilitate in the wild research, in particular by suggesting hypotheses that can be explored through machine learni...

24/01/2024

Scenario-based Co-design with Older Adults: A Design Case on Decreasing Loneliness

Sefora Tunc, Femke Nijboer, Geke Ludden, Lex van Velsen, Monique Tabak

In many developed countries, the number of older adults is increasing. Many of them suffer from loneliness, causing mental and physical health challenges. Technological innovations offer the potential to address such challenges. However, a mismatch between user needs and intervention design often le...

24/01/2024

The Empathic Co-Design Canvas: A Tool for Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Co-Design Processes

Wina Smeenk

The numerous grand challenges around us demand new approaches to build alternative sustainable futures collectively. Whereas these so-called co-design processes are becoming more mainstream, many multi-stakeholder coalitions lack practical guidance in these dynamic and systemic challenges based on e...

24/01/2024

The Inviting Music Player: A Case Study on Design for Loss of Initiative in Dementia

Rik Wesselink, Geke Ludden, Marike Hettinga, Berry Eggen

Music can have a positive effect on the quality of life of people with dementia (PwD). Unfortunately, PwD have limited access to music due to difficulties in product use and loss of initiative. Most studies on designing for PwD focus on improving the interaction design and do not consider the loss o...

24/01/2024

Targeting a Luxury Driver Experience: Design Considerations for Automotive HMI and Interiors

Sevcan Yardım, Owain Pedgley

Luxury car design feeds on traditions of performance, quality, precision, craftsmanship, and unique or expensive materials. More recently, interactive technologies have become a variable for automotive human-machine interface (HMI) and interior design. Still, the criteria for their successful implem...

24/01/2024

Advancing Design Approaches through Data-Driven Techniques: Patient Community Journey Mapping Using Online Stories and Machine Learning

Jiwon Jung, Ki-Hun Kim, Tess Peters, Dirk Snelders, Maaike Kleinsmann

Designers are increasingly collaborating with data scientists to apply smart data technologies to understand large-scale user behavior during their design research. This is useful in specific impact domains with vulnerable users and unfamiliar contexts, such as healthcare design. Patient journey map...

24/01/2024

Experiential Speculation in Vision-Based AI Design Education: Designing Conventional and Progressive AI Futures
Yi-Ching Janet Huang, Stephan Wensveen, Mathias Funk

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change how designers design, what they design, and why they design. Recent efforts have extended design education with AI and related machine learning (ML) concepts and technologies. Often, these courses are grounded in other fields such as Computer Science, Electri...

11/12/2023

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

14/01/2023

Design Enters the City: Requisites and Points of Friction in Deepening Public Sector Design

Antti Pirinen, Kaisa Savolainen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Tuuli Mattelmäki

Design is increasingly deployed by governments and cities to address social and policy-related problems and to develop public services and organizations towards more citizen centeredness. Design activities in complex and hierarchic public organizations easily meet challenges, making their impact elu...

14/01/2023

Towards More-Than-Human-Centred Design: Learning from Gardening

Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Maria Normark, Mikael Wiberg

More-than-human-centred design is a growing field in HCI (human-computer interaction) that account for non-human actors in design processes (such as animals, plants, and microbes but also autonomous technologies). While the rationale for more-than-human-centred design is clear, there is a lack of de...

14/01/2023

I Love It, I’ll Never Use It: Exploring Factors of Product Attachment and Their Effects on Sustainable Product Usage Behaviors

Michael Christopher Kowalski, Jay Yoon

Research on product attachment has shown that users tend to retain emotionally meaningful products longer and delay their disposal. This has been suggested to be more environmentally sustainable, though little empirical evidence of the actual long-term use of these products is available. Two studies...

14/01/2023

Behaviors of Novice and Expert Designers in the Design Process: From Discovery to Design

Hsi-Jen Chen, Yan-Ting Chen, Chia-Han Yang

It is generally known that expert and novice designers work in different ways and also engage in different behavior during the design process. In order to have a better understanding of how they behave during the design process, the objective of this paper is to explore the differences between exper...

14/01/2023

Exploring the Composite Intentionality of 3D Printers and Makers in Digital Fabrication

Sowmya Somanath, Ron Wakkary, Omid Ettehadi, Henry Lin, Armi Behzad, Jordan Eshpeter, Doenja Oogjes

In this paper, we identify new relationships between technologies and people in the context of digital fabrication. Our research applies a postphenomenological lens to understand and identify such relationships by using the concept of intentionality, an idea that relates to how humans and technologi...

14/01/2023

Get a Grip on Stress with Grippy! A Field Study to Understand Human-Wearable Partnerships in Stress Management

Xueliang Sean Li, Marco C. Rozendaal, Eric Vermetten, Kaspar Jansen, Catholijn Jonker

Smart wearables are increasingly used to help people deal with stress. Still, a less explored area of research in this field concerns the partnerships that smart wearables can take on when engaging people in stress-coping activities. To facilitate further understanding of the human-wearable partners...

14/01/2023

Understanding Design Utilizations in China: Investigating Design Award-Winning Products Based on Innovation Pyramid Framework

Peiyao Cheng, Cees De Bont

Learning from developments in other countries, Chinese firms heavily invest in design to develop products with differentiated advantages to upgrade their value chains. This research investigates Chinese firms’ design utilization performance by analyzing award-winning products in the past decade. S...

28/12/2022

Tension-and-Release: A Design Principle for Dynamic Materials

Amy Winters, Simone de Waart, Miguel Bruns

The physical world (our bodies and materiality) enables increasingly complex interactions between humans and systems. While the material-turn in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) allows dynamic materials to exhibit temporal (change-in-time) behaviours, current research concentrates on the expressive....

28/12/2022

Design Framework for Audible Alarms: A Multidisciplinary and Integrated Approach

Rosana Sanz-Segura, Eduardo Manchado-Pérez, Elif Özcan

Designing alarms to address the increasing complexity of dynamic and interconnected systems in current socio-technological environments presents multi-faceted design problems that require systematic thinking and a collaborative and holistic approach. To understand the alarm design challenges better,...

28/12/2022

Design Capital: Unearthing the Design Capabilities of Community Groups

Katerina Alexiou, Vera Hale, Theodore Zamenopoulos

The paper focusses on exploring the design capabilities of community groups. It formulates a framework which synthesises Amartya’s Sen capability approach with asset-based approaches to community development, to propose an original view of design capability as a collective attribute, pertaining to...

28/12/2022

Engagements and Articulations of Ethics in Design Practice

Christian Dindler, Peter Gall Krogh, Kasper Tikær, Peter Nørregaard

While ethics has been part of design research for decades, few studies have explored how designers engage with ethics in practice. Based on interviews with 11 practitioners in design consultancies, this paper explores how ethics is understood and dealt with in commercial practice. Based on an analys...

28/12/2022

Habitabilities of Living Artefacts: A Taxonomy of Digital Tools for Biodesign

Jiwei Zhou, Bahareh Barati, Elisa Giaccardi, Elvin Karana

This paper offers a taxonomy of digital tools for crafting habitabilities in biodesign practices. Over the past decade, interest has grown among design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholars to explore the potentials of living organisms for novel responsive behavior and interaction possibilit...

28/12/2022

Integrated Co-design: A Model for Co-designing with Multiple Stakeholder Groups from the ‘Fuzzy’ Front-end to Beyond Project Delivery

Jeremy Arthur Stuart Kerr, Michael Whelan, Okansa Zelenko, Keely Harper-Hill, Clare Villalba

As co-design is increasingly applied across multiple sectors, there is a greater need for practical guides to support extended, low-cost and diverse implementation. This paper proposes a model, integrated co-design, developed by research through design, which provides a process for conceptualising a...

28/12/2022

Design with and by Marginalized People in Humanitarian Makerspaces

Lucia Corsini, Santosh Jagtap, James Moultrie

There is a growing demand for humanitarian aid around the world as the number of displaced people has reached an unprecedented level. At the same time, the number of community-based design and fabrication makerspaces has been growing exponentially. Recently the humanitarian sector has become interes...

28/12/2022

Designing for Cervical Cancer Screening in Rural Nicaragua: A Case Study in the Informal Emergence of Complex Human-Centered Service Design

Julia Kramer, Vivek Rao, Alice M. Agogino

Global health access and delivery in low- and middle-income countries constitutes a complex challenge for service design. While previous studies have examined how human-centered design (HCD) methods can make an impact on global health challenges, how HCD is leveraged in the design and implementation...

23/12/2022

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all IJDesign readers, authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and editorial team!

Sincere thanks to Prof. Tsen-Yao Chang for designing the card for IJDesign every year.